Part of our “News That Matters“ Series, “Weekend Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that might have been overlooked in the course of a busy weekend. Here’s what you may have missed in the

“Looking for TikTok? Downloads for this app are paused due to US legal requirements.” TikTok officially shut down in the United States… and a few hours later, it began to reappear after President-elect Donald Trump pledged to delay for 90

“Oh, the weather outside is frightful” goes the opening of the song “Let It Snow!” by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne, words more typically associated with Christmas than inauguration day in Washington, D.C. but it appears that they

The American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Festival Chorale shortly before the start of the program The archive holding the publicly available work of the great twentieth-century composer Arnold Schoenberg  was destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California

Snickers the Wonderdog encountering a miniature snowman (snowbaby?) in February 2023, when under 1″ (2.5 cm) of snow fell in New York City. The National Weather Service said that Arctic air will spread  South and East from the Rockies starting

A barista preparing a coffee at a Starbucks location in New York City Starbucks announced it was ending a policy first introduced in 2018 whereby guests could enjoy the ambience of a Starbucks coffee shop without being required to make

In a rare overlap, this coming Monday is both Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The second inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is just the third time a president will take the oath of office on the day

Part of our “News That Matters“ Series, “Friday Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that might have been overlooked in the course of a busy week. Here’s what you may have missed in the

The first full Moon of the year began to illuminate the night sky on Monday and it was magical. Not only was it also the first full moon after the winter solstice and the second of the winter season but

Gravy Analytics is hardly a household brand but it is on the minds of many after the company, which that tracks and sells Americans’ location data, was hacked. Russian cybercriminals hacked Gravy, one of the largest companies of its kind,

An American Airlines jet in Philadelphia A veteran American Airlines flight attendant was one of three people stabbed in the downtown area of Denver over the weekend. Two people including Celinda Levno, the flight attendant, died as a result of

Part of our “News That Matters“ Series, “Weekend Update” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that might have been overlooked in the course of a busy weekend. Here’s what you may have missed in the